Arlington Times, September 05, 2012

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ARLINGTON — The Arlington Farmers Market has nearly doubled in size since last year and it’s final week this season was no exception. Pleasant weather and sunny skies on Sept. 1 helped fill the grassy area at Legion Park that is host to the six-year-old market, for its last day of 2012. The market will open again in 2013. “The city asked us to move to the park because we grew so much,” said Samantha Schuller, volunteer coordinator for the market. “The visitors like it, the vendors like it. It’s great.” This year was a great success for the market, which averaged between 600 and 1,000 visitors each day, according to Schuller. “This year we added a couple of new vendors, including a cheesecake vendor that people really love and a lot more produce vendors,” she said.

Jessica Feliciano owns Cheesecake Ever After with her husband John, and she is glad to sell her products at the market. “I absolutely love it, we’ve been having a blast,” she said. “I really feel like I’m part of the community, which is an important part of my business.” Farmers Market volunteers are hoping that with an increase in attendance there will also be an increase in vendors. “We are really hoping for dairy and meat vendors next year. For people selling ‘highrisk foods’ like meat and dairy, the Department of Health requires that they pay for permits to sell at the market. They can be expensive, sometimes up to $1,000. They have to justify selling for a market. Now that our numbers are getting higher and higher, it’s a possibility. We just need people to come through.” For some, the size of the market is perfect. SEE MARKET, PAGE 2

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Darlene Houston picks out a bundle of carrots from the Garden Treasures stand at the Arlington Farmers Market on Sept. 1.

Fire districts discuss regionalization options BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

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Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert tells the members of 14 fire districts in the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center on Aug. 30 that all of their agencies are impacted by increasing demands and diminishing resources.

ARLINGTON — Firefighters from Marysville, Getchell, Tulalip Bay, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Silvana and Lakewood were among those representing 14 fire districts at a special meeting on Thursday, Aug. 30, to discuss the future of fire and emergency medical services in Arlington and North Snohomish County as a whole. Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert introduced Don Bivens, an emergency services consultant with 30 years of experience in the fire service, as he presented a program in the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center on how the fire districts in attendance might be able to partner and/or pool their resources to maintain and perhaps even expand their levels of service in the face of ever-increasing demands and diminishing resources. Bivens retired from the Clark County Fire District

in Vancouver, Wash., in 2010, and acknowledged that public expectations of fire and EMS are escalating while state and federal dollars are drying up in the midst of ongoing economic troubles. “What’s the upside of regionalizing?” Bivens asked rhetorically. “I can’t say you’ll always save money, but you’ll gain significant opportunities to reduce costs, especially as you benefit from economies of scale.” Bivens touted the clout that regionalization would lend to the agencies involved, and explained that it can be accomplished via a merger of any number of fire districts, an annexation of a city, a contractual consolidation of the districts’ administrations or functions, an operational consolation which would retain the districts’ separate administrations, an organizational consolidation of one agency contracting the other agency’s full services, or the SEE FIRE, PAGE 9

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